The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tunnel \Tun"nel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tunneledor Tunnelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tunneling or Tunnelling.]
To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
--Derham.To catch in a tunnel net.
To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: tunnel)
WordNet
n. a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars); "the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection"
a hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter [syn: burrow]
v. move through by or as by digging; "burrow through the forest" [syn: burrow]
force a way through
[also: tunnelling, tunnelled]
See tunnel
Usage examples of "tunnelled".
Simply and seemingly effortlessly, we tunnelled down through gates and sluices and along the pylons which strode across the frozen countryside into London and the web of Northcentral which, even now, still roared.
It floated up in the hot drafts which tunnelled across the hall every time someone opened the doors.
Spurred by all this travel and transfer, the disease I have called tinnitus tunnelled deep and desperate into the corners of my head.
She had comprehensive recollection and was able to come out with astonishing bits and pieces of information which she had tunnelled away in her retentive memory.
They musta tunnelled in or somethin', `cause they didn't come past me.
A lot larger, a long hall tunnelled out of naked rock, with an arching ceiling thirty metres high.